Senior Software Engineer
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Job Description
Football Radar
For over a decade Football Radar has excelled in developing statistical models and analytical frameworks for football. Our expertise extends to providing advisory services to football clubs and offering leadingedge betting advice that has consistently delivered outstanding returns for our clients. We define ourselves as a unique blend of startup dynamism and established business security combining the flexibility of the former with the stability of the latter.
About the Role
At Football Radar we analyse and predict football matches. As a senior member of the team youll have a broad remit and the autonomy to shape and improve our platform. Were looking for someone who can bring their experience and ideas to the tablewhether its rethinking how we handle deployments improving observability or evolving our infrastructure to better support our data scientists and developers. Youll have the freedom to explore propose and implement changes that make a real difference across the business.
This role is based at our London office at 1 Craven Hill London W2 3EN. You will have flexibility to work from home one day a week. Please note we are not considering remote candidates at the moment.
Role Requirements
We are looking for engineers with at least 2 years of experience in Scala. Given that the majority of our backend codebase is written in Scala the ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our backend infrastructure.
We are first and foremost a football company and to have a big impact here it will help if you have domain expertise you will probably be a big football fan and ideally someone who is comfortable with the mathematical and statistical approaches we are applying to the game. If you have any experience with sports betting or football analytics that is a bonus.
Wed love to hear from you if this sounds like you:
Wellversed in working with distributed systems in the cloud (our software runs in AWS deployed via Docker and Kubernetes)
Willing to work across our tech stack: Scala Python C Typescript and PHP.
Experience with relational and document based databases.
Familiar with different testing methodologies.
Enjoys technical leadership and guiding product development shaping the vision and implementation of backend platforms effectively.
Thrives on responsibility and ownership.
Pragmatic mindset.
Excellent communication time management and organisational skills.
Benefits
We have a range of benefits available at Football Radar and continue to review these to ensure our colleagues are gaining everything they can from them.
Half yearly bonus opportunities based on company performance
33 days holiday (Including bank holidays)
Competitive contribution matched pensions
Health and wellbeing benefits:
Private Medical Insurance (including excess coverage)
Health Cash Plan via Bupa
Subsidised gym membership
Daily subsidised office meals
Learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth
Company and team led engagement activities throughout the year- Fortnightly fiveaside football game amongst colleagues
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
